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Originally Posted by praetorian63
the Truth of the whole....LESS IS MORE..... Just my humble input....  |
I too come from the days of the 300 baud modems. This was before Netscape folks and those of you who not even know what Netscape is we are talking eons before IE.
I have found most of what kills load time on any site is 2 main items. First and the most deadly is client side scripting/applets. All you need is a poor programmer and your site comes to a halt not to mention no control over client side of things (hardware wise). Just plain poor design IMHO. Look how many jumped onto the Java bandwagon like it is something good. Only thing good about Java is portability but the costs of that portability just do not seem to be worth it IMHO.
Second is graphics. Not the quantity but the quality. I have seen animations that could be done with less than 10% of file size used to create. Again poor programming. A little money invested into fair to decent software instead of out of the box Microsoft options does wonders in relation to quality vs file size. Many graphics (read simple graphics when speaking web site) could be drawn by the server thus greatly reducing load time of pages.
Of course it is not design you just need more bandwidth.
How about those Macromedia shows to enter a site. Aren't those pretty? Big deal you learned how to use Macromedia. Did you learn how to build anything behind that dumb "Enter" page? Usually not. Anyway I primarily use IE as I primarily surf while at work and the company prefers Bills products. Mainly because they do not know anything else.
Before I ever booted my new Dell I formatted the drive. Got an install of Fedora. Dell said that voided the warranty. I was so sad.